"But it is shocking in light of the opportunities that he was given to get away from his drug problems".
The disclosure was the more shocking in light of separate revelations earlier this year that dead children's organs had been removed without their parents' knowledge or consent by a Dutch pathologist working in the north-western port city of Liverpool.
Two federal prosecutors, Matthew L. Biben and Jason M. Weinstein, said in court papers that the Porgeses' scheme "demonstrated a level of deviousness and greed that is particularly shocking in light of the human suffering that was the wellspring of their profits".
This is particularly shocking in light of the fact that, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, over 50percentt of U.S. students entering university have expectations to participate in a study abroad program, but fewer than 10percentt will actually fulfill those expectations during their academic careers.
It's especially shocking in light of the decades of precedents and the numbers of justices who have agreed that there is protection in the 14th Amendment against sex discrimination, and struck down many, many laws in many, many areas on the basis of that protection".
Only one hour from Paris by high-speed train, this former textile hub near the Belgian border is literally illuminating the North: the Lille Flandres railroad station shimmers in shocking pink lights designed by Patrick Jouin, and the Lilleurope office tower glows with 1,880 flickering green neon tubes orchestrated by the Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger.
This was shocking in the light of Mr Safra's legendary conservatism, and weakened Republic's bargaining position in the current round of banking consolidation.
Eva Joly, a former anti-corruption magistrate who is a Greens candidate in this year's French presidential elections, called it a shocking salary in light of the economic crises in the euro zone.
But the smells were less shocking than the light and the noise: an explosion reported at a Con Edison transformer station — a plant near the far east end of Fourteenth Street, with a Little League baseball field tucked next to it — an event in a different category than the precautionary shutdowns that Con Ed had called customers about all day.
But before that, Robinson shoots a shocking flash of light, a glimpse of Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchair doused with water accompanied by an electronic noise.
